Forest Wagtail

How to identify

Field marks

1. Two black breast bands, the upper one like a bow tie
2. White supercilium and a dark stripe through the eye
3. Wings black with 2 broad white wing patches
4. Back and crown olive-rufous

Male, female and young

Sexes similar; juvenile has yellowish underparts.

Voice

Single-note “pink pink”, given both on the ground and in high flight.

Where and when it's recorded

Forest Wagtail has been recorded at 664 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 23 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. IIT MadrasIndia775 records
2. Victoria ParkSri Lanka576 records
3. Angkor WatCambodia441 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaThailandSri LankaChinaCambodiaMalaysiaSingaporeSouth Korea

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The forest wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus) is a medium-sized passerine bird in the wagtail family Motacillidae. It is the only wagtail species that nests in trees. It is found mainly in forested habitats, breeding in the temperate parts of east Asia and wintering across tropical Asia from India to Indonesia.

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